vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2019-3838: Security patch for ghostscript (ALAS-2021-1598)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 25, 2019
Added
Feb 22, 2021
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscriptamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-cupsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-docamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ghostscript-gtkamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libgsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libgs-devel
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